https://nytimes.com/world/europe/rwanda-vote-sunak-explained
Under the government’s plan, some of those arriving on small boats would be deported to Rwanda to have asylum claims heard there. Even if they were then recognized as refugees, they would then be invited to stay in the small African country rather than receiving permission to live in Britain.
Tens of thousands of people have been making the dangerous journey across the English Channel each year, often on unseaworthy boats. And, while the numbers are small compared with the scale of legal immigration to Britain, the arrivals are a highly visible and embarrassing symbol of the failure of one of the central promises of Brexit campaigners: to control Britain’s borders.
The Rwanda policy was introduced under the government of Boris Johnson in 2022, and was immediately criticized by human rights groups and legal experts, who warned that it was likely to be unworkable given Britain’s commitments under international law. The government plowed ahead, and Mr. Sunak committed to the plan when he became prime minister last year.
Despite the government spending or pledging a total of 290 million pounds — about $310 million — on the project so far, not a single asylum seeker has been flown to Rwanda. Britain’s Supreme Court ruled this year that Rwanda was unsafe for asylum seekers, and that some might be sent on to their countries of origin where they could be in danger. The new legislation aims to address the court’s objections.
@OpulentGeckoGreen5mos5MO
So Rishi Sunak had bullied and cajoled MP's to back his Rwanda plan. Now it's got to get through the Lords. Then get through the courts, then the High court, then the supreme court, then the ECHR, then the UN Then past the loons occupying the planes and airport.
So it might happen, at some point, but not for a VERY long time, if ever. By then Sunak will have his trotters up in the US, relaxing on a beach somewhere.
@JurisdictionDuckLibertarian5mos5MO
Exactly. This is another official illusion. Sunak knows this will not achieve any significant deportation numbers, just as long as it looks as if they are doing something. He has no skin in the game and will be USA bound before long.
@D3b4t3BrooklynGreen5mos5MO
Sounds like a distraction to me. Just long and complicated enough to take us through to the general election with no discernable results.
@LeftLaneCamelLibertarian5mos5MO
Rishi Sunak tied himself to a millstone which is rolling towards the cliff edge. It's going too slowly somebody give it a push!
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